What does Matthew 5:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel,b but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house."
Verse Matthew 5:15. _NEITHER DO MEN LIGHT A CANDLE AND PUT IT UNDER A_ _BUSHEL_] A bushel μοδιος: - a measure both among the Greeks and Romans, containing a little more than a _peck_ English. From som...
NEITHER DO MEN LIGHT A CANDLE ... - The word rendered “candle” means any portable light, as a lamp, candle, lantern. Compare Mark 4:21; Luke 8:16; Luke 12:35. Jesus proceeded here to show them that th...
5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
Mt. here brings together material (_a)_ found scattered in Lk., (_b)_ peculiar to himself. MATTHEW 5:13. SALT AND LIGHT. Good men are not only rewarded in the coming age, they help the world now and...
LIGHT. CANDLE AND PUT IT UNDER. BUSHEL. A lamp in the Revision, which is correct. Candles and candlesticks were not used in Scripture times. The seven-branched candlestick of the tabernacle was compo...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48) As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel. In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that the hour has stru...
NEITHER. and not (Greek. _ou)_. App-105. CANDLE. lamp. Greek. _luchcnos._ A BUSHEL. the measure. Greek. _modion =_. dry measure: i.e. any measure there may happen to be in the house. ON. upon. Gree...
_a bushel_ Rather, THE bushel, i. e. the common measure found in every Jewish house. Strictly speaking, the _modius_, translated "bushel," denoted a smaller measure equal to about two gallons. _candl...
ΤῸΝ ΜΌΔΙΟΝ. ‘The bushel,’ i.e. the common measure found in every Jewish house. The article generalises. Strictly speaking, the _modius_ denoted a smaller measure equal to about two gallons. ΛΎΧΝΟΣ …...
_JESUS' TEACHING ABOUT INFLUENCE AND LAW MATTHEW 5:13-20:_ Those that exhibit the characteristics of the beatitudes become the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Those with humble and pure...
ΚΑΊΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. 3 pers. pl. от_ ΚΑΊΩ (G2545) светить, ΛΎΧΝΟΣ (G368) масляный светильник, маленькая глиняная плошка, ΤΙΘΈΑΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087) ставить, размещать, ΜΌΔΙ...
DISCOURSE: 1296 CHRISTIANS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD Matthew 5:14. _Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel,...
NEITHER DO MEN LIGHT A CANDLE, &C.— This seems to be a proverbial expression. See the application that Christ makes of it on another occasion; Mark 4:21.Luke 8:16; Luke 11:33. They formerly used _lamp...
B. THE MISSION OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN TEXT: 5:13-16 13. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to...
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. NEITHER DO MEN LIGHT A CANDLE (OR 'LAMP') [ luchnon (G3088 )], AN...
18-19 Compare Mar_1:16-18; Luk_5:1-11; Joh_1:40-42. 21-22 Compare Mar_1:19-20; Luk_5:10-11. 23 See Mar_1:21-39. 25 Compare Mar_3:7-8. 1-2 Compare Luk_6:20:23. 1 The “Sermon on the Mount” was prob...
5:15 bushel, (b-12) I have left 'bushel' as well known; it was a measure under half a bushel....
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT John 5:1 to John 7:29. The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20. This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke (Luke 6:20), that it is best to regard them as ident...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29 INTRODUCTION This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
LIGHT A CANDLE. — The word so rendered was probably a portable lamp rather than a candle in the common meaning of the word. The candles of the seven-branched candlestick of the Temple were undoubtedly...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Disciple functions_. It is quite credible that these sentences formed part of the Teaching on the Hill. Jesus might say these things at a comparatively early period to the men to whom He had already...
THE NEW SALT AND LIGHT OF HUMAN SOCIETY Matthew 5:10-16 We must expect to be persecuted, if we hold up the pure light of a consistent life amid the evils of the world. Men hate the light which expos...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestiv...
This light of the world, city on a mountain, and candle upon a candlestick, signify the Catholic Church, so built upon Christ, the mountain, that it must be visible, and cannot be hidden or unknown. ...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE CITY ON THE HILL_ ‘A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.’ Matthew 5:14 How strange and exaggerated such language must have sounded to that rude and rough company which first heard it. S...
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The str...
NEITHER DO MEN LIGHT A CANDLE,.... Which may be read impersonally, "a candle is not lighted": and by it may be meant the Gospel, and gifts qualifying men to preach it; which, like a candle, was lighte...
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Ver. 15. _Neither do men light a candle to put it under a bushel, &...
_Ye are the light of the world_ The effect of light being to make things manifest, Ephesians 5:13, and to direct us in the way in which we are to walk; the import of this metaphor is, that Christ had...
The same admonition under a different figure:...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him we...
A BUSHEL: [symbol in wrong place in 1611] the word in the original signifieth a measure containing about a pint less than a peck...
13-16 Ye are the salt of the earth. Mankind, lying in ignorance and wickedness, were as a vast heap, ready to putrify; but Christ sent forth his disciples, by their lives and doctrines to season it wi...
You ought also to consider the end why I have communicated of my light unto you; it is in part the same with that of men: when they light up a candle in a room, which is to show light to all those tha...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "No one lighteth a candle, and putteth it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may give light to those who are regarded worthy of the feast."[28] Tert...
Matthew 5:15 Nor G3761 light G2545 (G5719) lamp G3088 and G2532 put G5087 (G5719) it G846 under G5259 basket G3426 but G235 on G1909 lampstand G3087 and G2532 light G2989 (G5719) all G3956 in G1722 ho...
THE PERSECUTION OF THE GODLY, AND THE BLESSEDNESS THAT IS SEEN TO BE THEIRS AS A RESULT. THEY WILL THEREFORE BE LIKE THE PROPHETS OF OLD WHO WERE ALSO PERSECUTED, AND WILL BE THE SALT OF THE EARTH AND...
The scene (Matthew 5:1), the formal preface of the Evangelist (Matthew 5:2); the opening description of the citizens of the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3-10); their relation to the world (Matthew 5:1...
UNDER THE BUSHEL (υπο τον μοδιον). Not a bushel. "The figure is taken from lowly cottage life. There was a projecting stone in the wall on which the lamp was set. The house consisted of a single ro...
Matthew 5:13 Influence of Christian Character. I. Christians such Christians as those to whom the Beatitudes of the previous verses belong are called to be, and will be, the "salt of the earth," and...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,-_ Our Saviour soon gathered a...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light. Christ's relation to the law. Divorce. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
Matthew 5:1. _Seeing the multitudes,_ assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upon t...
TO PUT IT UNDER A BOWL. The very purpose of lighting a lamp would make it foolish to conceal its light. Just so would it be absurd to conceal truth....
HOW TO BE A LAMP A lamp. Matthew 5:15. Would you like to know how to be a lamp? Boys and girls can all be lamps. They can't be electric arc lights or incandescent burners they must leave that to th...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs. Matthew 5:1; Matthew 10:1;...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT BEING THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD MATTHEW 5:14-16; MARK 4:21-22; LUKE 8:16-18; LUKE 11:33-36; MATTHEW 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Jo...
CHAPTER 5 _Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was? "Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT _The aim and contents of the_ “_Sermon_.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and po...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. I...
Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of scripture. Matthew five, And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has sat down, his disciples came unto...
Exodus 25:37; Luke 11:33; Luke 8:16; Mark 4:21; Numbers 8:2...
A bushel [τ ο ν μ ο δ ι ο ν]. Rev., rightly, "the bushel;" since the definite article is designed to indicate a familiar object - the grain - measure which is found in every house. A candlestick [τ η...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great crowd of...
Nay, the very design of God in giving you this light was, that it might shine. Mark 4:21; Luke 8:16; Luke 11:33....